Niger governor to resolve Kwara APC crisis

By Jide Orintunsin, Abuja The Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has directed the zonal leadership of the party to resolve the leadership crisis rocking its Kwara State chapter.The directive was given after a two and a half hours meeting between Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRasak, the new state Caretaker Committee Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Samari and the Kunle Sulyman led-faction as well as the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, former state chairman, Alhaji Bashiru Bolarinwa and Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo.The meeting, which was convened at the instance of CECPC chairman and Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni, was chaired by the Secretary of CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe.Niger State governor and representative of the Northcentral Zone in the Caretaker Committee, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, attended the meeting.Read Also: 22 Kwara lawmakers support APC chairs suspensionEfforts to get comments from the governor and the minister were unsuccessful.They refused to answer questions from reporters at the partys national secretariat in Abuja where the meeting was held.But a source at the meeting said after presentations by the two factions, the secretary directed Governor Bello to resolve the crisis within two weeks and report back to the committee.Bello told reporters that the crisis would be resolved next week.The leadership crisis in Kwara APC became public, following the replacement of Alhaji Bolarinwa by Alhaji Samari through the national leadership of the party in a letter dated January 4.
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